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The final guide to SharePoint 2010 Site settings 01 October 2012
Whitepaper Release 1.1
By: Thomas Balkesthl - blog.blksthl.com
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Contents
Introduction by the author ............................................................................................................................................... 3
Graphical look .................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Site Settings Shortcuts ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
URL shortcut Usage .............................................................................................................................................................. 7
Powershell Usage ................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Site Settings .......................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Users and Permissions ........................................................................................................................................................ 10
Galleries .............................................................................................................................................................................. 11
Site Administration ............................................................................................................................................................. 13
Site Collection Administration ............................................................................................................................................ 17
Look and Feel...................................................................................................................................................................... 25
Site Actions ......................................................................................................................................................................... 28
Reporting Services .............................................................................................................................................................. 30
Index .............................................................................................................................................................................. 31
The final guide to SharePoint 2010 Site settings 01 October 2012
Whitepaper Release 1.1
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Introduction by the author
The site settings of a SharePoint site collection is an advanced toolbox that can accomplish almost anything if
you just know what is available and what is not. One problem that most everyone experiences is to know if
something can be done, and when you know that it can be done, the next question is how.
I spend a lot of time trying to help individuals with SharePoint 2010 issues both in my profession and in my
spare time in TechNet and MSDN forums. Often I or someone else delivers an answer but it is useless because
this or that option in Site settings is missing.
This whitepaper will at a rather late stage in the SharePoint 2010s product lifecycle try to answer a few
questions that still gets asked several times every day. Why cant I see the site setting for object caching,
master page or navigation? The same question can be asked for quite a few more
I will also try to help you use Site settings in a way that for some is more convenient, using the direct URLs. A
full mapping of all settings and their URL is included in this whitepaper for your convenience. The direct URL is
sometimes the only way to access a certain setting.
Already at this early stage of this paper, I know that some people cant wait to tell me that the only real way to
administer SharePoint is to use PowerShell, and this paper is a huge waste of time, storage and paperI am
myself a huge PowerShell fan and I do most of my administrative tasks with PowerShell, but it simply isnt
practical to try to find the appropriate cmdlet every time I need to do a minor administrative task. For some
settings, you also need the graphical user interface to get a proper picture of how the setting should be
implemented. During my work with this paper, I would even say that some things cant be done at all using
PowerShell.
So, PowerShell or not, here are the Site Settings of SharePoint 2010 made available and easy.
As time has permitted me, I have in this paper added a few of the most used PowerShell equivalents to the
setting.
I hope that you will all enjoy and have good use of this collection of SharePoint site settings made easy.
Regards
Thomas Balkesthl blog.blksthl.com
The final guide to SharePoint 2010 Site settings 01 October 2012
Whitepaper Release 1.1
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Graphical look
The site settings are dynamic in a way that some settings make an appearance first after a feature has been
activated or some other prerequisite has been fulfilled. This chapter will try to show when you can expect to
find a certain setting.
Users and Permissions
Site permissions
Site columns
Web parts
List templates
Master pages
Themes
Solutions
Site Administration
Regional settings
Language settings
User alerts
RSS
Workflows
Workflow settings
Searchable columns
Site permissions
Site columns
Web parts
List templates
Master pages
Themes
Solutions
Site columns | /_layouts/mngfield.aspx
Always available
Use this page to manage columns on this site and all parent sites.
TechNet reference: Get-SPSite
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607950.aspx
Site content types | /_layouts/mngctype.aspx
Always available
Use this page to create and manage content types declared on this site and all parent sites. Content
types visible on this page are available for use on this site and its sub sites
Web parts | /_catalogs/wp/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Only available in the Site Collection Root
Use this Web Part Gallery to store and retrieve Web Parts. The Web Parts in this gallery are available
to this site and all sites under it. To preview a Web Part, click its title.
On a site collection:
$SPSite.RootWeb.Fields | Select Title
On a sub site:
$SPWeb.Fields | Select Title
$PublishingSite.ContentTypes | select Name, Group | Where-Object {$_.Group -ne "_Hidden"}
Always available
Only available in the Site
Collection Root
Only available on Sub site level
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List templates | /_catalogs/lt/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Only available in the Site Collection Root
Make a template available for use in list creation by adding it to this gallery. The templates in this
gallery are available to this site and all sites under it. Default list templates are not shown.
Master pages | /_catalogs/masterpage/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Only available on Sub site level
Use the master page gallery to store master pages. The master pages in this gallery are available to this site
and any sites underneath it.
Master pages and page layouts | /_Layouts/RedirectPage.aspx?Target=
%7bSiteCollectionUrl%7d_catalogs/masterpage
Only available in the Site Collection Root
Use the master page gallery to store master pages. The master pages in this gallery are available to this site
and any sites underneath it.
Themes | /_catalogs/theme/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Only available in the Site Collection Root
Use the theme gallery to store themes. The themes in this gallery can be used by this site or any of
its sub sites.
Solutions | /_catalogs/solutions/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Only available in the Site Collection Root
Use the Solution Gallery to track user solutions.
$SPWeb.ListTemplates | Where-Object {$_.Name -match "List"} | Format-List -Property Name
$SPList = $SPWeb.Lists["Master Page Gallery"]
$SPList.items | select name | Where-Object {$_.name -like "*.master"}
[Microsoft.Sharepoint.Publishing.PublishingSite]$SPPubSite = New-Object
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingSite| $SPSite
$SPPubSite.PageLayouts | Select Name, title | Sort Name
or
$SPList = $SPweb.Lists["Master Page Gallery"]
$SPList.items | select name | Where-Object {$_.name -notlike "*.png" -and $_.name -notlike
*.xml" -and $_.name -notlike "*.gif"}
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Site Administration
Site Administration
Regional settings
Language settings
User alerts
RSS
Workflows
Workflow settings
Searchable columns